Regular Expression For Duplicate Words

Question

I\'m a regular expression newbie, and I can\'t quite figure out how to write a single regular expression that would "match" any duplicate consecutive words such as

Answer 1

Try this with below RE

• \b start of word word boundary
• \W+ any word character
• \1 same word matched already
• \b end of word

• ()* Repeating again

  public static void main(String[] args) {
  
      String regex = "\\b(\\w+)(\\b\\W+\\b\\1\\b)*";//  "/* Write a RegEx matching repeated words here. */";
      Pattern p = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE/* Insert the correct Pattern flag here.*/);
  
      Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
  
      int numSentences = Integer.parseInt(in.nextLine());
  
      while (numSentences-- > 0) {
          String input = in.nextLine();
  
          Matcher m = p.matcher(input);
  
          // Check for subsequences of input that match the compiled pattern
          while (m.find()) {
              input = input.replaceAll(m.group(0),m.group(1));
          }
  
          // Prints the modified sentence.
          System.out.println(input);
      }
  
      in.close();
  }